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The treatment population is jam-packed with vulnerable people and families desperately looking for magic solutions to a genuinely challenging problem like recovery.

Really resistant clients are already planning to continue using alcohol or drugs throughout treatment, possibly in secret.

Even when the patient has concluded that continued substance use is no longer the best option, he or she still harbors a number of important doubts about the ability to change.

Most addicts and alcoholics wind up in treatment because they’re experiencing difficulties due to substance use– ranging from the pain of withdrawal to troubles with the law, to threatened loss of job or family.

I take great care in finding the right practitioner. He or she will likely be more important than the technique itself.

Ultimately, you are the only one that makes decisions about your life.

We’ll see the progress that was occurring even when the addict appeared, at the time, to be floundering badly.

Counselors are taught that the best way to make progress is to let the client determine the direction the relationship takes.

Intervention is about achieving a very specific time-limited objective: an addict or alcoholic who agrees to participate in treatment.

Many good interveners—including some excellent professional intervention counselors—started out as primary enablers.